Oddblotter: "Cash Register Repairman" Fixes Cash Register by Removing Cash

An unidentified man knocked over a Mansfield Shaw's supermarket last Wednesday by posing as a cash register repairman, police say. According to reports, the criminal mastermind told store employees that he had been sent to fix cash registers in Taunton but that he ended up in Mansfield instead and offered to "fix" some cash registers while he was in the neighborhood. We're not 100% certain that he didn't use air quotes. The story was likely enough that store managers sent him to an ailing cash register, which he allegedly repaired by removing the $460 in cash that had been stuck in it.

Police have photos of the man, including the one to the right, and are actively seeking information concerning his whereabouts. Meanwhile, bank employees should be wary of any corpulent "bank vault repairmen." [Mass Most Wanted]